Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Veepish behavior


There’s a VP campaign commercial on these days for Chris Christie extolling all the wonderful things he’s done for the state of New Jersey.  Apparently he’s some sort of reformer.  The commercial makes all sorts of claims about how he’s been so wonderful for the state.

Things like he balanced the budget – just like every other governor because it’s required by law.  They also fail to mention in the commercial that the state has not met all of its obligations.  In other words the budget was balanced because some of the bills weren’t paid.

The rest of the commercial is just a bunch of half-truths and lies.  Projects that would have created jobs have been cut, public school funding has been cut, public sector pensions have been hurt and overall economic performance and job creation lag well behind the neighboring states of New York and Pennsylvania. 

The commercial is nothing but bs, but I guess that’s what you do when you want to sound like a good choice for VP governor.

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